PorcupineTongue

17.6 MILLION U.S. RESIDENTS EXPERIENCED IDENTITY THEFT IN 2014

Holy crap. US Population was ~318.6MM in 2014. That's an average of one identity theft per 18 people. That's... a lot more than I would think.

I guess my question would be "what constitutes identity theft?" A while back, my credit card was used without my permission. The bank flagged a couple but one got through and was caught by the vendor's system (or so they said, after I told them).

Would this be flagged in those statistics as an identity theft, even though the name the attacker used for the purchase wasn't even remotely close to mine?

Ptaszynski

Wow. I was waaaaay off. I always thought, based on how Dan says it, that it would be something like "Czesynski".

Follow-Up: Why did James change from @EggShaped to the much more mundane @JamesHarkin? Did he decide he hates fun?

Wait.. so not only was I spelling it wrong, but I don't even know how its pronounced? What's the correct pronunciation?

^{inb4 "Ptaszynski"}